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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Read Xtian Observer on War ... Began Father & Son by Goss. 9. May filled hot water bottle & brought hot water. To bed 9.30.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edmund GosseFather and Son: A Study in Two TemperamentsPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Tea in Garden[.] Went out with May to lower Heath. Finished "Lay down yr. arms" Read again Stephen [indecipherable]. Supper in garden. Hot bath.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Martha von TillingLay Down Your ArmsPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Went with May to reading room at 10 a.m. Read Times. Back at 11.30.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Bkft in garden. Elsie read Prayers. Carefully studied newspapers.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Finished Batchelor's Comedy.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook J. E. Buckrose (pseud.)A Bachelor's ComedyPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Knitted and Daily Mail. Rheims Cathedral destroyed by Germans. Early dinner ¼ 1. Rested in d:r:'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MailPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Wrote to Clara & thanked for flowers & book & gave account of birthday. Finished Wall of Partition.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Wall of PartitionPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook TimesPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Daily MirrorPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Went out with May to pay bills when snow & sleet stopped. She left me at Reading Room where I read Times & daily mirror & Graphic.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook The GraphicPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'Rained all day without stopping. Read Butler's Crusade. May bought winter dress at Selfridge's £1.0.5. payed her with cheque..'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Josephine Elizabeth ButlerPersonal Reminiscences of a Great CrusadePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Dense fog. Could hardly see ... May had to go to bed till night. I read Memoir of J. E. Butler.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Josephine Elizabeth ButlerPersonal Reminiscences of a Great CrusadePrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook 1 Corinthians 7Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'May finished Only a Governess. Pr. ¼ past 9. 1 Cor vii.'May Rosa Nouchette CareyOnly a GovernessPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Returned Belloc's book on June 4th not got another yet.'Mary Ethel Corry Knocker Hilaire BellocunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'This has been a very uneventful week and I have nothing much to add to my letter to Father, except that I've read "Sayonara" and think it excellent.' Gertrude Bell John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-GwatkinSayonaraPrint: Book
1900-1945'News from the front there was none. No one knew where the front was. The "Evening Paper," a single sheet, printed in large characters on one side only, confined itself t...Ian Vivian Hay Evening Paper, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Not many miles away to the left lies Landrecies, which R. L. Stevenson refers to, in "An Inland Voyage," as, "a point in the great warfaring system of Europe which might...Ian Vivian Hay Robert Louis StevensonAn Inland VoyagePrint: Book
1900-1945'The suppression of all newspapers left the universal craving for news unsatisfied, and the daily paper was replaced by short type-written notes which were secretly passe...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknown[type-written note]Manuscript: Type-written notes.
1900-1945'In a much-thumbed copy of the "Figaro," dated October 25th—a copy which, it was said, had been dropped from an aeroplane, and which we secretly circulated from ward to w...Ian Vivian Hay Le FigaroPrint: Serial / periodical


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